Ethnic Pride Portraits
Portraits of people around the world proud of their heritage, showing ethnic and religious pride wearing traditional folk regalia and costumes. Below: Greek, Korean, Native American, Hindu, Chinese […]
A Child’s Stay in the Middle East
By Carol Yost In the early fall of 1955, when I had just turned 10, my family went to Syria on a grant under a […]
Cutting Edge
By Keith Michael We’re bumping up and down on that end-of-spring seesaw when weather forecasts careen between a balmy 60 degrees with blue sky one […]
Osteria 57 Flavors West Village with Mouth-Popping Italian Pescatarian Fusion
By Karen Rempel Osteria 57 has been lighting up West 10th Street with tiny fairy lights for a year and a half, and delighting our […]
Hunting for Treasures at Home
By Annette Benda Fox, Fox Gallery NYC Spring cleaning can be an adventure of discovery! What if your grandmother’s teapot is worth $500 or even […]
Maggie B’s Quick Clicks
LAST CALL When the show opened last November, New York Times Art Critic Holland Cotter urged “MEET WARHOL, AGAIN, IN THIS BRILLIANT WHITNEY SHOW,” adding […]
Greenwich Village: Reminiscence
By Harry Rissetto I grew up in Greenwich Village during the period between Robert Moses’ proposed freeway and John Lindsey’s plans for a tourist mecca. […]
West Village Original: Marshall W. Mason
By Michael D. Minichiello This month’s West Village Original is director Marshall W. Mason, born in Amarillo, Texas in 1940. Mason co-founded the Circle Repertory […]
Theater Book Review: The Transcendent Years
By Robert Heide The title of Marshall W. Mason’s remarkable new book entitled The Transcendent Years—The Circle Repertory Company & The 1960s for which he […]
IN AND OUT
This month we saw mostly closings, something that often happens in the winter, with five on Bleecker Street alone. Hopefully next month we will have […]
My Favorite Restaurant
“Can you recommend a good Village restaurant?” When you get asked this question by a tourist or a new friend what pops into your head? […]
Seniors Doing Cat Cows
By Stanley Wlodyka Jean-Michel Basquiat couldn’t cut it in a traditional high school setting. After dropping out, the Brooklyn native enrolled at City-As-School, a […]
Notes From Away: Winter Break
By Tom Lamia I write from Toluca Lake, California, long-time residence of Bob Hope and other early Hollywood notables. The weather is, of course, shockingly […]
Sexual Abuse by Men of Respected Standing in Religious Faiths is Nothing New
By Carol Yost Twenty-five years ago, Sister Maura O’Donoghue, a Medical Missionary of Mary in County Clare, Ireland, submitted a report to the Vatican about […]
VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
By Bernadette Alexander Glaucoma runs in my family on my mother’s side. My mother, grandmother, siblings and even third cousins have it. Although I was […]
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District Celebrations Throughout 2019, Big One April 13-14
By Andrew Berman The landmarking of most of Greenwich Village took place on April 29, 1969. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the Greenwich Village […]
Then&Now: Weehawken Street Historic District
By Brian J. Pape, AIA, LEED-AP As I look across Christopher Street from my living room window I see the Weehawken Street Historic District […]
5G—Is the Price of This Progress Too High?
By Elizabeth A. Kelley, Executive Director, Electromagnetic Safety Alliance, and Director, EMFScientist.org. The 5th Generation wireless communication infrastructure is being deployed at breakneck speed across […]